Google poached Windsurf’s cofounders and some key AI researchers for $2.4 billion while AI coding startup Cognition scooped ...

Silicon Valley was left reeling after Varun Mohan, co-founder and CEO of promising AI startup Windsurf, abruptly left the ...

The founder and a few core staff get to build big things at Google, while the rest of the Windsurf is still protected as a ...

Varun Mohan, Windsurf co-founder, faced criticism for joining Google DeepMind. This happened after a $3 billion OpenAI ...

Days after AI coding startup Windsurf announced that it’s being acquired by Cognition, Windsurf exec Jeff Wang took to X to ...

His abrupt exit, however, left Windsurf in turmoil. The startup managed to secure a last-minute acquisition by another AI ...

The departure came at a time when Windsurf was nearing a major deal. OpenAI had nearly acquired the startup for $3 billion, a ...

Windsurf’s Indian-origin CEO Varun Mohan is facing backlash for joining Google after a deal to sell the startup to OpenAI for ...

The whipsawing of Windsurf employees and the unusual cleaving of the company into separate parts have left a bitter taste in ...

Windsurf had a wild weekend earlier this month. A deal with OpenAI fell apart. Google then poached its CEO. 48 hours later, ...

Nowhere has that power struggle played out more dramatically than inside Windsurf, a fast-growing AI company that had, until ...

Multi-billion dollar acquihires are taking CEOs and founders away from the companies they’ve started—and leaving behind ...